OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystem Services is 19. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	170
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	162
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	121
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	111
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	106
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	86
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	78
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	78
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	72
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	71
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	71
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	67
Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas	66
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	64
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	61
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	58
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	54
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	50
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	46
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	46
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	46
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	45
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	45
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	45
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	44

Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	43
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests	42
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	41
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	40
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	40
Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa	40
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	38
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	37
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	37
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	36
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	36
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China	36
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	35
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	35
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets	35
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model	34
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries	34
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast	33
Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica	33
Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management	32
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	32
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	31
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance	31
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	31
The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services	31
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management	31
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia	30
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	30
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms	29
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?	29
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	29
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media	29
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	29
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	28
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	27
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design	27
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	27
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	27
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	27
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	27
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	27
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	26
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	26
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	26
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	26
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	26
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs	26
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	26
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	26
Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve	25

Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision	24
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	24
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	24
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	23
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services	23
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	23
Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling	22
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services	22
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	22
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	22
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services	22
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services	22
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management	22
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	21
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan	21
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland	21
Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil	21
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	21
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	21
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	20
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services	20
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks	20
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review	20
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	20
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA	20
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services	20
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	20
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services	20
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors	20
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?	19
Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos	19